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After many years using a Mac and the past few years with a bluetooth keyboard that is almost identical to my Mac Book Air keyboard. I find myself back in the world of linux and a PC keyboard.

After a few hours of just not getting to grips with the spongy and strangely laid out keyboard I plugged in an old Mac aluminium keyboard. The improvement in comfort was immediate and my productivity also increased. However after a day of using the full size keyboard and then going back to the MBA, suddenly I was faced with the CTRL, ALT and FN keys being a bit fiddly to find again.

So. The solution is to convince debian to use my bluetooth keyboard and then apart from the old CTRL-C, SHIFT-CTRL-C, CMD-C issues I’ll be all set.

Getting linux to recognise an old Belkin bluetooth adapter I had lying around seemed easier than I was expecting as there is a lot of bluetooth help around. I opted for blueman in the end. However getting all the keys to map up was a little more tricky. There is a character map for the full size Apple keyboard, but I couldn’t find one for the Apple bluetooth keyboard.

After some fiddling with various character maps and reconfiguring with various amounts of failure. I created my own map. The main key mix ups are the §± and `~ keys.

Attached at the bottom is the keymap file to fix these issues. (It will also reverse the mouse scroll too). I say attached. WordPress did not allow me to upload a txt file. So, it’s appended at the bottom. Keycode 49 and 94 are the main changes.